Clara Everhart
Clara Everhart is a photographer, blogger, and digital communications specialist. She is inspired by spaces thick with history and uses photographs and storytelling to bring them to life. One of her passions is the interpretation of the devastating history of American chattel slavery and its continuing legacy. Another passion is to manage digital communications for mission-driven organizations.
Photography
Everhart Creative captures and celebrates the work of individual historians, reenactment units, and historic sites both during this 250th anniversary year and beyond. She shoots mainly candid, natural-light portraiture that brings the past into the present. She also enjoys creating detailed studies of material culture inspired by Dutch still life and trompe l’oeil.
Blog
Clara Everhart cannot resist researching and sharing historic details about the places she visits. Through photography and storytelling, Everhart explores historic houses, living history, and immersive experiences, not to simply recreate the past, but to ask how and why we remember it. From beautiful historic interiors to the uncomfortable realities often hidden behind romantic visions of history, the blog considers what happens when the past meets the present.
Digital Communications
Clara Everhart uses her background in writing and editing, social media management, and digital advertising to assist small, mission-driven organizations. Writing and editing help these organizations communicate their values. Social media management helps them connect with their communities. Digital advertising helps them reach the people they are called to serve.
Contact
You can contact Everhart Creative by emailing [email protected].
Everhart Creative is based in Alexandria, Virginia, and serves clients locally and remotely.
Education
Master of Arts, Arts Management
George Mason University, 2017-2020
Special Projects Intern
Jul 2019 – Nov 2019
Created a 1920s-themed interactive mystery fundraiser (“Smoke & Mirrors: a Woodlawn Whodunit”) for Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House (National Trust for Historic Preservation).
Capstone Project
Comparative Study of Inclusive Interpretation in Living History Museums
Wrote a thesis that compared the living-history interpretations of American chattel slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, and Historic St. Mary’s City.
Bachelor of Arts, Writing, Literature, & Publishing (Communications)
Emerson College, 2008-2012
Minor in Entrepreneurial Studies
Member of the Emerson Honors Colloquium
Capstone Project
Searching to Experience: Examining History Through Young Adult Fiction
Developed a mystery game (“Diamonds, Debts & Deadly Secrets: Murder on Board the RMS Titanic”) that used role-play to encourage young adults to explore history.